Ukraine Offers Help Downing Iran Drones in Exchange for Patriot Missiles

Fragments of Shahed drones at the sites of Russian strikes in Kharkiv, Ukraine. — Fragments of Shahed drones at the sites of Russian strikes in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Photographer: Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform/NurPhoto/Getty Images

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By Aliaksandr Kudrytski and Andrea Palasciano

March 5, 2026 at 4:32 PM UTC

Corrected

March 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM UTC

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is trying to leverage his nation’s war savvy to keep it on the world’s agenda as the Iran conflict increasingly absorbs the attention of President Donald Trump, putting the US-brokered peace talks with Russia on indefinite hold.

On Thursday, he offered to share his country’s expertise in protecting against explosives-laden Iranian drones, which are swarming the defenses of the US and its Middle East allies.